Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes
"It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being."
- Joseph Wood Krutch
(Related: Being, Guidance, Study)
"When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman."
- Joseph Wood Krutch
(Related: God, Man)
"What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants."
- Joseph Wood Krutch
(Related: War, Man)
"Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do."
- Joseph Wood Krutch
(Related: Science, Fact)
"There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men."
- Joseph Wood Krutch
(Related: Men, Woman)
"The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only."
- Joseph Wood Krutch
(Related: Time, Lonely, Self, Snow, World)
"The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February."
- Joseph Wood Krutch
(Related: EnglFebruary)
"Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without."
- Joseph Wood Krutch
(Related: Security)
"Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most."
- Joseph Wood Krutch
"Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is."
- Joseph Wood Krutch
(Related: Consciousness, Living, Sun)
"Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying."
- Joseph Wood Krutch
(Related: Time, Losing, Meaning, Trying)
"Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia."
- Joseph Wood Krutch
(Related: Cats)
"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want."
- Joseph Wood Krutch
(Related: Cats, Harm, Want)
"Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies."
- Joseph Wood Krutch
(Related: Life, People, Desire, Grace, Loyalty)
"Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude."
- Joseph Wood Krutch
(Related: Happiness, Gratitude)
"If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers."
- Joseph Wood Krutch
(Related: God, People, Mankind)
"If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either."
- Joseph Wood Krutch
(Related: Beauty, Food, Earth, End, Joy, Will)